royal palace 88Between 1812 and 1815, the Golescu Mansion was built at the place of the present Royal Palace. It belonged to stolnic Dinicu Golescu, a hh-ranking aristocrat ().The house was built inThe 'Alawi sultans and kings have maintained a palace in Rabat since the 18th-century ren of sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, who used Rabat as one of his imperial residences